The EPA believes that environmental cleanup should be a building block, not a stumbling block, to economic development. Cleaning up contaminated sites must go hand-in-hand with bringing economic vitality to communities. To promote this belief, the EPA has fostered a number of incentive programs to revitalize cleanup sites. These include the Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots, empowerment zones, environmental insurance, land reclamation banks, real estate investment trusts and tax abatements. These programs are designed to empower states, communities, tribes, and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely cleanup, and promote the sustainable reuse of remediated sites.

Recommended EPA Web pages

• Brownfields and Land Revitalization
  Document links to information on Brownfields.
• Urban Rivers Restoration Initiative
  Provides information about the Urban Rivers Restoration Initiative which works to restore degraded urban rivers.
• American Heritage Rivers
  The heart of the American Heritage Rivers initiative is locally driven and designed solutions.

Cost Sharing

Economic Revitalization

Environmental Accounting
Full Cost Accounting

Grants
Brownfield Grants, Cleanup Grants, Environmental Education Grants, Environmental Justice Grants, Performance Partnership Grants, Pollution Prevention Grants, Program Grants, Restoration Grants, Set Aside Grants

Performance Contracting

Regulatory Impact Analysis